Trochemoche

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Publication Year:
2012

ISBN-13: 9781453259115

<DIV><DIV><b>Poems of the barrio and of the Americas beyond</b></div><DIV><b>&#160;</b></div><DIV>Spanish for &ldquo;helter-skelter,&rdquo; <i>Trochemoche</i> begins by conjuring life in the barrio, whether in a slum in a Texas border town or in L.A., the vast, hectic, desperate California metropolis where Luis J. Rodr&iacute;guez grew up. For Rodr&iacute;guez, only art offered deliverance from the despair of gang violence and poverty, and these poems stand as prayers for transcendence, recorded long after Rodr&iacute;guez escaped his violent past and began to explore the wider world. Here Rodr&iacute;guez offers not only songs of the American dream, but a dream of the Americas, a place that invites a pell-mell, sometimes violent, collision of cultures, human impulses, and natural forces.</div><DIV>&#160;</div><DIV>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Luis J. Rodr&iacute;guez including rare images from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div><DIV></div></div>